Tag - FIG

Igor Radivilov, the silver medalist on vault at Worlds, was chosen as the Athlete of the Month by the Ukrainian Olympic Committee. It was the first award of this kind for Radivilov. In an interview to iSport.ua he talks what the...

Andrei Rodionenko followed the comments on multiple issues at Worlds made by Valentina Rodionenko with his own critique of the organizing committee:
“There’s never been such a number of injuries as during these...

Last night Oksana Chusovitina was elected as the new WAG athlete representative in the FIG replacing Beth Tweddle in this position.
Chusovitina talked to R-Sport about what it means to her to be the athlete...

Valentina Rodionenko announced that Russian artistic gymnastics federation recommended Emin Garibov for the FIG Athletes Commission. The commission’s goal is to represent the interests of the athletes in FIG and it includes...

Morinari Watanabe gave an interview to VTB Bank during the European Championships.
I assume the interview was taken in English, however, VTB only published it in Russian and I wasn’t able to find the English original, so here...

VTB Bank conducted an interview with André Gueisbuhler, secretary general of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG). Gueisbuhler said that one of FIG’s priorities is to make gymnastics the most popular sport in...

Morinari Watanabe, the FIG president, is currently in Baku for the FIG Executive committee meeting and the Islamic Games. Just a few days ago FIG decided to include a new discipline, obstacle course (which is basically parkour...

The FIG executive committee is currently meeting in Baku. Nellie Kim talked to the local press about the plans for the meeting.
The interview is in Russian. The English translation is below.
Q: What issues are going to be...